Learn about the RS Leadership throughout the years, starting from our most recent president, Hank Bernstein, to our earliest, Abraham Gumpert.
Click the name of the president to read their bio.
Henry B. Bernstein
2020-2023
Michael Hauptman
2017-2020
Lloyd Brotman
2014-2017
Dena Herrin
2011-2014
Fred Strober
2008-2011
Susan Kline Klehr
2005-2008
Richard Berkman
2002-2004
Thomas Perloff
1998-2002
2004-2005
Richard Schmeltzer
1995-1998
Alvin P. Gutman
1992-1995
Muriel Beissinger
1989-1992
Edward L. Snitzer
1986-1989
David J. Kaufman
1983-1986
Ivan H. Gabel
1980-1983
Harold Rosenbluth
1976-1980
Robert P. Frankel
1973-1976
Samuel H. Levy
1970-1973
Earl Perloff
1967-1970
Donald Bean
1963-1967
Edward Rosewater
1959-1963
Reynold Greenberg
1954-1959
D. Arthur Magaziner
1946-1951
Albert Lieberman
1951-1954
Philip Sterling
1941-1946
Harry Nusbaum
1935-1941
Lionel Friedmann
1930-1935
Charles Edwin Fox
1923-1930
Albert Wolf
1912-1923
Emil Selig
1904-1912
Benjamin F. Teller
1896-1904
David Teller
1879-1896
Elias Wolf
1871-1877
Presidents Not Pictured:
Levi Mayer (1877-1879)
Joseph Einstein (1852-1871)
Samuel Adler (1848-1852)
Simon Elfeld (1845-1848)
Mayer Shoyer (1839-1841; 1844-1845)
Moses Abraham (1837-1848)
Herman Van Beil (1831-1837)
Louis Bomeisler (1827-1831; 1841-1844)
Wolf Benjamin (1823-1827)
Isaac Stuttgart (1821-1823)
Lewis Allen (1811-1817; 1818-1821)
Hyman Marks (1811)
Abraham Gumpert (1810-1811; 1817-1818)